ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Fingery

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Fingery is an adjective meaning Resembling fingers in shape.

Meaning

Resembling fingers in shape.

More Meanings

  1. (climbing) Requiring the use of fingers to climb.

Example Sentences

They are swimming toward some kind of undersea plant (a sea anemone?), itself surrounded by watermelon-size amoeba shapes with long, fingery edges.

Synonyms for fingery

Depending on context, synonyms include fingerlike, digitiform.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fingerlike, fingernaillike, fingerish, gesturelike, handlike, thumblike.

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